You really can’t blame Americans for being incapable of understanding free speech issues. It’s what they’re now being taught in schools. A recent editorial in a high school newspaper set off a furor when the editor opined that there were problems in the school; problems that should be resolved. This was not CNN, not CBS […]

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The theme over at Chepooka’s place this week seems to be “food.” Since there’s no time right now to do the work I normally do for my regular type of post, I thought I’d go ahead and post my own food entry. Actually, it’s more properly my wife’s food entry — except for the occasional […]

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One of the things that bothers me the most these days about politics and the general mood sweeping our country is this: “”I don’t apologize for the investigation and the conduct,” [Miami County Prosecutor Gary Nasal said,] “The result speaks for itself.” — AP Story, “Agents use woman’s identity in strip-bar sting” (April 10, 2005) […]

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Although today’s column talks a lot about Tom Delay, I’m really writing to ask why it has taken so long for something to be done. Why have my Republican friends expressed the opinion that I’m full of [excrement deleted] for having complained to them for over a year now that if the Republican Party was […]

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I’ve got an idea and I think it’s a pretty good one, too. My wife isn’t so sure. You see, I need to find some way to make a little more money. So I’m thinking of starting a chicken farm. At first, I was really stumped, though, as to how I was going to protect […]

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CBS News says that gasoline this summer is expected to average $2.28 cents per gallon this summer. My wife and I pray that it goes that low. As I write this, the lowest price in Fresno in the last 72 hours has been $2.39 per gallon at Family Express on Butler & Cedar. The high […]

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Perhaps the next Great Depression in America, which I wrote about earlier this morning, won’t be quite as bad as some people think. Bob Marcotte points out a story in today’s Fresno Bee about undercover police officers attending student meetings at California State University, Fresno. The students were (understandably) upset about discovering there were two […]

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According to George Bush, the United States of America — once a proud leader of the world and still its number one bully — is actually just the largest Third-World Country.

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I wasn’t going to blog this morning. Life is really busy right now and I’m one of those who have to work for a living. I hope you’ll forgive me if this isn’t as “tightly written” as it could be. But there are things happening today that, frankly, should have thousands, if not millions, of […]

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Arturo Gonzales — sporting the smirk made famous by George Bush — is preparing to go to Congress to defend the need to renew the unconstitutional

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